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Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Economic gross is making us fat. -- Pierre Dukan
Economic knowledge necessarily leads to liberalism -- Ludwig von Mises
Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results. -- Omar Bongo
Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Economic opportunities will win the women's vote. -- Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Economic growth is not only unncessary, but ruinous. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Economic necessity should be the mother of educational invention -- Andy Hargreaves
Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes. -- Thurman Arnold
Economic policies command bipartisan support only when they're incoherent. -- Steven Landsburg
Economic growth is the most important initiative every governor faces. -- Dave Heineman
Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out. -- Jack Kemp
Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable. -- Joe Manchin
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. -- John Clapham
Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues. -- Jonathan Haidt
Economic growth which strips out the planet's ecosystems is not sustainable -- Helen Clark
Economic freedom is ... an indispensable means toward the achievement of political freedom. -- Milton Friedman
Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical -- Amartya Sen
Scientific understanding is our joy. Economic and political understanding is our duty. -- Henry A. Wallace
Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. -- Herbert Hoover
Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet -- Phil Harding
We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth. -- Paul Ryan
Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with. -- Richard Heinberg
Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum. -- Manmohan Singh
Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more. -- Jim Rohn
It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy. -- Anatoly Chubais
Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn -- H. L. Mencken
Economic losses like this are really as serious a problem as embezzlement and corruption. -- Li Jinhua
Economic life, as always, is a matrix in which result becomes cause and cause becomes result. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Economic storm is coming and the stress levels are going to increase because of financial worries. -- David Wilkerson
Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Under capitalism each individual engages in economic planning. -- George Reisman
There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty. -- Margaret Thatcher
Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer. -- Ludwig von Mises
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. -- Christopher Dodd
Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs. -- Nancy Pelosi
Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring. -- Edith Widder
Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time. -- Denis Waitley
Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods. -- Robert Reich
A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. -- Ronald Reagan
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. -- Laurence J. Peter
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. -- Carlos Fuentes
The WTO has one of the most impressive records in global economic governance, by promoting trade liberalisation and economic development. -- Anna Lindh
Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities. -- Pope Francis
Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis. -- Ben Bernanke
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions. -- Barney Frank
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another. -- Milton Friedman
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess. -- A. Philip Randolph
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain. -- Thomas Sowell
We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families. -- George Pataki
The establishment of free trade agreements can be a critical and progressive step towards greater economic integration, and continues to become more valuable in an increasingly global world. -- Dan Kildee
People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways. -- Vaclav Klaus
China is clearly going to be the number one economic power and it is already full of potential.. with lots of population and the buying power increasing by the day. . -- Bernard Arnault
Besides taking jobs from American workers, illegal immigration creates huge economic burdens on our health care system, our education system, our criminal justice system, our environment, our infrastructure and our public safety. -- Jan C. Ting
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. -- Thomas Sowell
After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. -- Barry Commoner
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. -- Hannah Arendt
But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. -- Thomas Sowell
The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists. -- Ernest Hemingway
But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country. -- John Abizaid
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves -- Thomas Sowell
Racism is a way to gain economic advantage at the expense of others. Slavery and plantations may be gone, but racism still allows us to regard those who may keep us from financial gain as less than equals. -- Alveda King
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture. -- Deepak Chopra
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children. -- Sachin Tendulkar
Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality. -- Noam Chomsky
Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all. -- Ban Ki-moon
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. -- Paul Dirac
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. -- Paulo Coelho
Populists have always been out to challenge the orthodoxy of the corporate order and to empower workaday Americans so they can control their own economic and political destinies. This approach distinguishes the movement from classic liberalism, which seeks to live in harmony with concentrated corporate power by trying to regulate excesses. -- Jim Hightower
To overcome poverty and the flaws of the economic crisis in our society, we need to envision our social life. We have to free our mind, imagine what has never happened before and write social fiction. We need to imagine things to make them happen. If you don't imagine, it will never happen. -- Muhammad Yunus
We're living in a whole new social and economic order with a whole new set of problems and challenges. Old assumptions and old programs don't work in this new society and the more we try to stretch them to make them fit, the more we will be seen as running away from what is reality. -- Ann Richards
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them. -- Carl Honore
The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax deductible. -- Gloria Steinem
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Politicians exploit economic illiteracy. -- Walter E. Williams
Don't be economic Girlie-Men -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
I'm for economic independence. -- Charles Evers
Money is economic power. -- Walter Bagehot
Equality begins with economic empowerment. -- George H. W. Bush
Culture changes with economic development. -- Ha-Joon Chang
People confuse economists and economic policy. -- Franco Modigliani
Real freedom must include economic security. -- Bernie Sanders
Obama's entire economic program is reparations. -- Rush Limbaugh
Abortion happens because of economic circumstances. -- Nat Hentoff
The normal economic system works itself. -- James Salter
Australians have defied global economic gravity. -- Wayne Swan
Barack Obama is an economic patriot. -- Ted Strickland
Human creativity is the ultimate economic resource. -- Richard Florida
Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure. -- Edward Heath
Real economic stimulus comes from real investment. -- Tim Bishop
Political power without economic power is sterile. -- Louis O. Kelso
It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences. -- Edward Higgins White
Good environmental policy is good economic policy. -- Bernie Sanders
Rising student-loan debt is an economic emergency. -- Elizabeth Warren
Immigrants create an engine of economic prosperity. -- Jeb Bush
One cannot have economic growth without security. -- John Bruton
Demagogues always do well in economic downturns. -- John Avlon
Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus." -- Aneurin Bevan
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Freedom is the by-product of economic surplus. -- Aneurin Bevan
Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn -- John Warren Kindt
Globalization is a fact of economic life. -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
For the poor, the economic is spiritual. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Globalization is a fact of economic life -- Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Discussing economic reforms in Serbia is futile. -- Ivica Dacic
Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity. -- Michael Porter
My definition of economic development is economic growth. -- Mark Noble
Progressive economic policies lead to a sustainable economy. -- Keith Ellison
That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center. -- Cyril Connolly
All countries have problems with China's economic power. -- Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
Brand equity doesn't change based on economic considerations. -- Chris Jogis
The Bahamas is headed for unprecedented economic activity. -- Perry Christie
Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration. -- Olaf Stapledon

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